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Maybe that was why I was so desperate to stop her from being mad.Maybe it was not for her at all. Maybe it was because I was too fucking selfish to see her hurt.But it wasn’t about me.It was about Chloe and Milka.Because of Milka, a part of Chloe will always belong to me. It didn’t matter whether that part lives inside our daughter or not. A part of her would always be mine, and it’ll always be living inside me, because no matter what she says, she’s mine.She can fight it. She can deny it. She can scream at me. She can walk away from me.It wouldn’t change that Chloe Hidson was irrevocably fucking mine.**************** *************** ***************************“Eight hours without talkin’. Did I say I’m impressed?”“You should be more impressed that it’s been eight hours after an argument and he hasn’t cornered me and kissed me yet,” I muttered in response.Leah raised an eyebrow. “I don’t want to know.” She jumped on her bed and bounced a couple of times before settling. “I f
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“Why don’t you two, I dunno, just jump into bed together or something? Because, yowwww!” She shook her head. “Someone approaches you two when you’re together and they zing back off that wall of sexual tension.”Because we already got into bed once.I raised an eyebrow. “There is no sexual tension.” Liar, liar. “There’s a lot of anger, but no sexual tension.”If you don’t count that god-awful need to have his skin naked against mine and his hands teasing my breasts and his cock inside me.Yep. No sexual tension whatsoever.“Whatever. Just sort your shit out. Either talk or don’t. And it ain’t even just for Milka. For you, too, Chloe. Because both of you deserve more than this back-and-forth shit.”“We can’t talk, Leah. We’ve tried. It just doesn’t work, but neither does not talking. I wish I wasn’t so drawn to him. I wish I didn’t give a shit what he does when we aren’t together but I do. And I wish it didn’t matter about the horde of girls waiting for him in LA.”“Talkin’ about Aiden?
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It was not about hearing him sing.It was about feeling him.I knew the song. It was our song. It was an acoustic melody on the beach before it was an LA-recorded hit. It was his heart and my soul before it was America’s latest teenage jam.It was something.It is something.And I listened. As he told me his heart beats for me the way I breathed for him, I listened. As he sung to me how his skin vibrated at my touch, I listened to him describe how mine buzzed for him.And I was nineteen. All over again, I was a teenage girl, falling hopelessly in love with a guy with a guitar.I was just a girl, falling innocently in love with someone who was just a boy.I closed my eyes and fell away with the melody. He’d hum it so often. Finally I let myself remember. I let myself recollect how he’d hum random parts whenever our hug would last a minute too long. I let myself feel how he’d sing my name without saying it, and how every syllable of his unspoken words would cascade through me like a nev
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I never knew a back could be so hot.I forced my gaze away and climbed into his bed. This time I lied on the edge, holding the top of the covers beneath my chin. I squeezed my eyes shut and pulled my legs up.The mattress dipped as he climbed in beside me.“I won’t jump you in the middle of the night,” he told me in a whispered grunt.“I know,” I whispered back, my voice barely breaking through the darkness. “I sleep like this.”He snorted, then a quiet slap rung out as he covered his mouth. “Yeah, sure, princess. The queen of starfishing sleeps in the fetal position. Try again.”“Things change.”“Yeah, but I bet your sleepin’ habits ain’t one of them.”“Maybe they are.”“Shut up before I spoon you.”A shiver snaked its way down my spine. Because that was such a threat. Being spooned by Conor James was obviously my worst nightmare.I shuffled back into the middle of my side of the bed and tucked the quilt tightly around me.He sighed but didn’t say anything about it. “Night, Chloe.”“
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Chloe sat next to me and hooked an arm around Milka’s waist. “Good cuddle?”Milka squeezed our necks. “Mama, Dadda hug My.”I met Chloe’s eyes and raised my eyebrows.“She wants us to cuddle like we were before.”Yeah, no. I didn’t fucking think so.“Okay, okay.” I wrapped one arm around Milka’s tiny waist and the other around Chloe’s.I tugged Chloe forward, and she stumbled, shrieking quietly. I laughed and slid my hand down to her ass once more. I forced her toward me until Milka’s practically squashed between us and hugged her tightly.A sense of rightness overcame me.This.This was how it was supposed to be.Both of them, both of my girls, wrapped in my arms first thing in the morning. Except they should be there last thing at night and every damn minute in between, too.I wanted to hold them, breathe them in, be everything they needed me to be. I wanted to be the guy that turns up with flowers for the woman and a toy for the baby just because. I wanted to be the guy that change
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Chloe turned to button them, then flounced towards the door. Her legs stretched out from beneath the frayed denim, long and toned and tanned, and I was stuck on them. Completely fucking stuck on them.They were what she had been wrapping around me?Fuck.“I smell bacon and pancakes,” she announced before walking through the door like she didn’t have a care in the world.She didn’t.She didn’t have a cock. For the love of fucking God, this erection was a killer.I grunted my annoyance to the silence of my bedroom and snatched a towel from my radiator. I yanked my door open and walked into the bathroom.Locking the door behind me, I losen the boxers and stepped into the shower. I let the water pound down on me and closed my eyes.Chloe filled my mind like her image was burned into the back of my eyelids. I could see the curve of her ass, the way her dark lace briefs stood out against her pale flesh. I could see the way she bent, except this time it was different.In my mind her legs wer
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She shrieked right next to my ear and I hissed a curse.“Sorry.” She slapped her hands over my mouth. “You surprised me.”“I was supposed to.” I slammed the door and rubbed my ear. Holy shit. Girl’s got a screech like a pterodactyl on estrogen.I got in the driver side and tore down the driveway. I nodded to our security team, standing vigil and keeping the media back. Flashes went crazy as photographers desperately tried to get our picture.“Sunglasses. In the glove box.”Chloe rifled through it and handed me them. “Sorry, Mr. Hollywood.”I laughed. “You want me to crash?”I glanced at her and she shook her head.“Well then.”She didn’t say anything else as I turned onto the main road through Santa Monica. A few cars mysteriously appeared behind us, conveniently coming from the same direction as my house.I felt my grin stretching across my face before Chloe noticed anything.“What?” she said, turning in the seat. “Oh, you’re fucking kiddin’ me.”She practically growled that. She was
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There was nothing wrong with putting a bit of OPI on your toes while watching Ocean’s Eleven on a Friday night. But paying someone else to paint my nails? Come on.“This is utterly ridiculous.” I stood up from the chair with my newly cut, blow-dried, salon-soft hair and ran my fingers through it.“Mhmm.” Leah looked at me. “Looks like you’re hating it.”I sighed and dropped my hand. “Can we go now?”“No. Conor told me I have to keep you here until . . .” She glanced at the clock. “Three o’clock. So another two hours.”I grunted and sat in the pedicure chair next to her. After another awkward night sharing a bed and waking up in his arms, I decided this morning that I was sleeping in my own bed tonight.Alone.“And why am I being kicked out of my own house?”Leah shrugged. “I don’t know, Chloe. He just said to keep you away until three, and since he’s paying, I’m all for it.”“Did you even try to find out?”“I did. He started ignoring me after, like, the tenth time I asked. I think he
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